"America's Funniest Home Videos" By Way Of 4Chan or YTMND

[Alex found this]

The Truculent Hilarity of 4CHAN Conservatives

The above animated GIF reminded me recently of this actual RNC ad that was running after Barry O.'s speech in Berlin:



I'm slightly weirded out by the crass, low-budget sophistication in both cases; how they appeal on the visceral, gut-level of an internet meme without discussing anything directly — in the first instance Obama-as-Zoolander-scale-pretty-boy-doofus (with iced lattes! Talking Point Bonus!) and in the second instance Obama-as-cocky-pretty-boy-doofus-Leonardo-Decaprio (with internationalist "King of the World" delusions! Another TPB!).

The second also seems to focus on painting Obama's supporters as Far Left, Eurotrash morans — in a way that is intentionally unfair, hilarious and basically what the Daily Show and Sascha Baron Cohen have been doing for over a decade now. This leaves me with the sinking feeling that after several botched attempts, we are coming closer to a world with a successful conservative Daily Show.

A la Greg Sargent's recent analysis — there is also the possibility that this ad was meant to work in some amazing way I never could have imagined.

Happy Mr. 4th of July, America!

I hope everyone has a great Independence Day weekend (while I am inside coloring my recent cartooning project in Photoshop)—and to prove the earnestness of that wish, here are some 4th of July bemusements:

[Click that dude to enlarge]


This next one is pretty indefensible.
Did I say indefensible? I meant, hilarious.



And lastly, Fresh Prince of Bel Air Pumas.

From The Bowels Of The Internet: Animated GIFs

Less-Than-Valuable Lesson, Learned: You can't directly link to the stuff evar. Sorry, readers. This is how I'ma gonna make eet up to you:


I hope this is new to everybody and that it is funny.

I have to say, wading through the dregs of 4chan's smutty, depressing and vulgar animated GIFs section was maybe not worth finding these, but hell I needed a break:

• Long, but worth it. A History of WWII as a told in MMORPG chat dialog
• Novelty award. WhateverTF this is
• Most like what you would expect from the internet. Star Trek: TNG Humor
• Builds in strength over prolonged viewing. Ewoks
• Laziest Jeff Koons Jacko Joke. This one

Back to the drawing board. (Woah, literally!)